The morning sun is breaking through thick fog as Amtrak #42, The Pennsylvanian, climbs past a westbound manifest at the Park hill Slag dump.

Mixed manifest train 172 used to traverse the S line on its way to Linwood. It now been diverted so no longer follows the river or runs through Asheville and down the Old Fort loops. Also gone are... (more)

The DeCon, AKA, the Detroit Connecting Railway, a sub of the Adrian and Blissfield, trundles towards Milwaukee Junction to interchange with the CN. The ex-Checker Cab Motor Co. SW900 handles dutie... (more)

The smoking hot 229 intermodal train glides out of tunnel #22 and onto the Emory River Bridge on its way south to Chattanooga. Half of the fun with this shot is just getting to this location!

AVR6 has just swapped trains with the NS in Manchester and is heading back to their home yard in Hazelwood.

The 3 time a week transfer from the limestone mine at Crab Orchard crosses Coalbank Hollow bridge shortly before arriving at the NS interchange in Rockwood, TN.

Fall is my favorite, especially with moody morning light. I had heard that the SD70ACUs, many of which were in active helper service out of Altoona were going to be retired so I wanted to try and... (more)

The morning sun begins to warm a a BNSF coal train crossing the Montana Rail Link at Plains. The train is timetable westbound as it follows the Clark Fork River on one side and the Smiley Sough on... (more)

A Herzog MPM makes its way back to the stub end siding in Hot Springs, NC to tie up for the day.

East meets west. An eastbound intermodal and westbound grain train meet at Truxton Spring in the Crozier Canyon at sunset.

INE road train heads west out of Montpelier, OH after picking up their train from Norfolk Southern.

A loaded Akron Barberton Cluster Railway utilizes Wheeling and Lake Erie power to lead a stone train past Quaker Square on CSX rails. This job takes loads to National Lime and Stone for unloading ... (more)

The Pend Orielle (pronounced "pon-der-ay") 3x a week turn heads towards the BNSF interchange in Sandpoint, ID. It was great to still see (and hear) a pair of Roots blown 567 motors runni... (more)

Fall is starting to show in the valley as the daily excursion train races through splashes of color to its next stop.

Number 500 is the only GP40 on the MRL roster and has lots of history as it was originally Western Pacific 3542, Union Pacific 690, then Chicago Missouri and Western 3025, then Wisconsin Central 3... (more)